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iOS Build an Interactive Story App with Swift Creating the User Interface Programmatically Attributed Strings

Posted by Wing Sun Cheung
Wing Sun Cheung
4,933 Points

The store property of attributedText is NOT a type NSMutableAttributedString

Hi team,

I am really confused here. Inside of UILabel class, there is a property called:

var attributedText: NSAttributedString?

In the video, Pasan did this:

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: page.story.text)
storyLabel.attributedText = attributedString

How is this possible? what I am confused about is var attributedText accepts only NSAttributedString, but somehow it also accepts NSMutableAttributedString?

Is it because since NSMutableAttributedString inherits from NSAttributedString, that makes NSMutableAttributedString equal to NSAttributedString?

thanks

2 Answers

Lone Nielsen
Lone Nielsen
13,764 Points
Lone Nielsen
Lone Nielsen
13,764 Points

This here is the right answer

attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.paragraphStyle, value: paragraphStyle, range: NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

Mark Szente
Mark Szente
Courses Plus Student 21,053 Points

almost nailed it, missing dot before the Key, or at least for Xcode 10.2.1 this is the right solution for the attributedString:

attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.paragraphStyle, value: paragraphStyle, range: NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

Ashwin Iyer
Ashwin Iyer
11,684 Points
Ashwin Iyer
Ashwin Iyer
11,684 Points

Hey so if you go back to around 1:40 in the video, he explains it better. But essentially, in objective C you need to use mutable types to be able to modify the objects. If we were to simply use NSAttributedString when we were changing the attributes, we would not be allowed to since the type is non-mutable.